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1981 - Opinions differ on whether the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves
were being used by the CIA or the Bulgarian Secret Service - According
to Agca, the plan was for him and the back-up gunman Oral Çelik to
open fire in St. Peter's Square - alleged that the assassination attempt
was organized by Abdullah Çatli "in exchange for the sum of 3 million
(German) marks"
Born January 9, 1958 Mehmet Ali Agca is a Turkish assassin, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13,
1981. After serving 19 years of incarceration in Italy, he was deported to Turkey, where he is serving another life
sentence for the murder of Abdi Ipekçi, a left-wing journalist, in 1979. Agca has described himself as a mercenary
with no political orientation, although he is known to have been a member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey
Wolves organization. ... Grey Wolves involvement: After this training he went to work for the far-right Turkish
Grey Wolves, who were at the time destabilizing Turkey, which led to a military coup in 1980. Opinions differ on
whether the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves were being used by the CIA or the Bulgarian Secret Service. According
to Kendal Nezan of the Kurdish Institute of Paris, they were infiltrated and manipulated by Gladio "stay-behind"
networks, a NATO clandestine structure. On February 1, 1979 in Istanbul, under orders from the Grey Wolves, he
murdered Abdi Ipekçi, editor of the moderate left-wing newspaper Milliyet. He was caught due to an informant and
was sentenced to life in prison. After serving six months, he escaped with the help of Abdullah Çatli, second-incommand
of the Grey Wolves and a prominent Gladio operative, and fled to Bulgaria, which was a base of
operation for the Turkish mafia. According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Mehmet Ali Agca had worked
with Abdullah Çatli in this 1979 assassination, who "then reportedly helped organize Agca's escape from an
Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Çatli was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt".
According to Reuters, Agca had "escaped with suspected help from sympathizers in the security services". Lucy
Komisar added that at the scene of the Mercedes-Benz crash where Çatli died, he was found with a passport under
the name of "Mehmet Özbay" - an alias also used by Mehmet Ali Agca. ... Beginning in August 1980 Agca began
criss-crossing the Mediterranean region, changing passports and identities, perhaps to hide his point of origin in
Sofia, Bulgaria. He entered Rome on May 10, 1981, coming by train from Milan. According to Agca's later
testimony, he met with three accomplices in Rome, one a fellow Turk and two Bulgarians, with operation being
commanded by Zilo Vassilev, the Bulgarian military attaché in Italy. He said that he was assigned this mission by
Turkish mafioso Bechir Celenk in Bulgaria. Le Monde diplomatique, however, has alleged that the assassination
attempt was organized by Abdullah Çatli "in exchange for the sum of 3 million marks", paid by Bechir Celenk to
the Grey Wolves. According to Agca, the plan was for him and the back-up gunman Oral Çelik to open fire in St.
Peter's Square and escape to the Bulgarian embassy under the cover of the panic generated by a small explosion. On
May 13 they sat in the square, writing postcards waiting for the Pope to arrive. When the Pope passed, Agca fired
several shots and critically wounded him, but was grabbed by spectators and Vatican security chief Camillo Cibin
and prevented from finishing the assassination or escaping. Four bullets hit John Paul II, two of them lodging in his
lower intestine, the others hitting his left hand and right arm. Two bystanders were also hit. Çelik panicked and fled
without setting off his bomb or opening fire.
MormonCoffee: [The LDS - Mormons] Keeping "our radar focused" on
the membership - According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune
"Loss of young adult members spurred changes to LDS wards"
Comments: (jackg) I think this specific age-range is a source of sadness for those of us of the Christian faith, as
well. We hear countless stories of Christians going to college and losing their faith. I think the LDS Church has
every right to be concerned about this age-range. Of course, the way they [LDS] go about it with their program of
forced-compliance is craziness. We respect a person's free will and the freedom one has for church-hopping until
they find a church they want to attend. We trust the Holy Spirit to work in an individual's life as He sees fit based
on the person's needs. Mormons don't get this. -- (f_melo) I am a single adult, the target audience of that article.
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